Monday, black hole cinematheque's Newsreel series continues Monday nights at 34 Trinity with The Woman's Film, produced by the Women’s Caucus of SF Newsreel as a contemporary portrait of the Womens' Liberation movement from a working class and minority perspective, at the Roxie, Blue Heron continues (also at the Smith Rafael) and an at rush sampler of Craig Baldwin's found footage trawlings screens with Baldwin in conversation with Lynne Sachs and Steve Polta, in conjunction with the SFAI Legacy Foundation's ongoing exhibition, Craig Baldwin: Ephemera Unearthed! (through May 29th!).
Tuesday, bhc's Tuesday Newsreel screening at Bathers Library is of Amerika, documenting the growing anti-Vietnam War protests, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg is at the Balboa, and at the Roxie, filmmaker Robert Stone is in person with Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Our Hero, Balthazar continues, and Rewind presentsThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 2) with live drag.
Wednesday, Shapeshifters has a Miss Video 4 You chainletter screening featuring 10 works spanning nearly 50 years saved onto a single USB thumb drive that's passed around along with a printed copy of a collaborative zine, Johnnie To's Throw Down is at the Drafthouse New Mission, RW Fassbinder's In a Year of 13 Moons is at BAMPFA, Chan is Missing (repeats Saturday) returns to the Roxie, and the Super Shangri La show returns to the Balboa with a Val Lewton double of The Leopard Man and The Ghost Ship.
Thursday, Ulrike Ottinger's Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press is at BAMPFA, the Stanford's weekday Hitchcock double is The Wrong Man and I Confess (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), and director Phil Hartman presents No Picnic at the Roxie, who have one last screening of Barbara Kopple's Harlan County USA.
Friday, black hole cinematheque presents a Nakba Day screening of Newsreel's 1973 film Revolution Until Victory a.k.a. We Are the Palestinian People at Tamarack, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's annual Charlie Chaplin Days festival kicks off with screenings, presentations, and special events all weekend, and Silent Friend opens at the Roxie (also at the Smith Rafael).
Saturday, The Bridges of Madison County is at all three Drafthouses, the Stanford's Hitchcock weekend double is Rear Window and To Catch a Thief (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday), filmmaker Mye Hoang is in person for 25 Cats From Qatar, Eraserhead is on 35mm for this month's Almost Midnights screening at the Roxie, the 4 Star has a Robert Altman double of Kansas City and Brewster McCloud (repeating Sunday), How to Blow Up a Pipeline is at the New Parkway, The Man from Laramie is at the Smith Rafael, our feature this week, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's monumental, 7-hour Our Hitler (a.k.a. Hitler: A Film from Germany), Other Cinema presents Alexandra Juhasz's Please Hold, an experimental documentary about grief, memory, and video formats, at Artists' Television Access (ATA), and Frameline and YBCA present a double feature matinee of Stephen Winters's Chocolate Babies and Alice Maio Mackay's T Blockers.
Sunday, the Roxie has Linda Perry in person with director Don Hardy to screen Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, a program of short films called Traces of Memory, and Mission Love returns with a new selection of recently digitized footage documenting the youth organizing in the neighborhood in the 70s and 80s, Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse presents The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years at the 4 Star, Rosie Reed Hillman is at ATA to present Something That Was Ours, John Carney's romcom Begin Again is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, and if you missed the brand new reconstruction at last week's Silent Film Fest, Queen Kelly is at the Smith Rafael.
